Plugin

Plugins are supported on gAPI.

These plugins must be writen in Golang and are only supportend on Unix.

Currently, it is supported these types of plugins:

1. BeforeRequestPlugin

Build a plugin

1. A plugin must use package main.

2. To build the plugin for usage, run this command:

go build -buildmode=plugin -o <plugin_name>.so <plugin_name>.go

Types

BeforeRequestPlugin

1. These plugins are run before each request to a microservice on gAPI.

2. When a plugin returns an error, the request will fail and stop.

3. The following methods must be implemented:

func (g beforeRequestEntryPlugin) Call(c *routing.Context) error

Activate a plugin on gAPI

Currently, to activate a plugin on gAPI you must add the following configuration to gAPI.json config:

"Plugins": {
    "Location": "./custom_plugins",
    "BeforeRequest": ["BeforeRequestPlugin"]
}

Params:

1. Location - where plugins are stored
2. BeforeRequest - List of BeforeRequestPlugin type plugins